Episode 71: From Powerless to Powerful: Rewriting Your Story with Ownership

From Powerless to Powerful: Rewriting Your Story with Ownership

Running to Myself with Trisha Stanton

In today’s episode, we’re exploring one of the most transformational shifts we can make in our lives: choosing courageous responsibility over a victim mindset.

This isn’t about blame or shame.
It isn’t about perfection.
It’s about reclaiming your power to influence what happens next.

We’ll talk about:

• How a victim story keeps us feeling stuck and defeated
  • Why ownership is the bridge toward confidence and peace
  • The difference between responsibility and self-criticism
  • What it looks like to take responsibility with compassion
  • Three practical ways to begin shifting into empowered action today

You’ll hear how this mindset builds trust in yourself, reduces emotional stress, and creates momentum, even in the middle of hard circumstances.

🔑 Key Questions to Consider

• Where in my life do I feel stuck or powerless?
  • What part of this situation might be mine to own?
  • What is one small action I can take today toward the outcome I want?
  • How would my life feel different if I stopped waiting for others to change first?

🧠 Tools from the Episode

Three Ways to Practice Courageous Responsibility:

1. Ask: “What part of this is mine to own?”
   
2. Move from emotional reaction to neutral thinking
   
3. Take one small action that aligns with the future you want
   

💬 Episode Quote to Take With You

“Your past doesn’t decide your future.
Your choices today do.”

👣 Your Next Right Step

Pick one area of your life, even something tiny, and practice courageous responsibility by taking one intentional step forward.

You don’t have to do everything.
Just do something.
And watch what begins to change.

Thanks for listening, friend.
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